It Is What It Is

We build it all
To watch it fall
We take it away
To our next days
Something better?
More clever?
Who knows?

So I guess we go
I want to stay
But know
That is not our way
We must continue
To build anew
Because,
That is just
What we do


— Jessica Godwin


Jessica Godwin is an emerging talent. Hailing from Washington state, she shares a journey of self-discovery with the written word. It Is What It Is first appeared in the Bar None Anthology. Jessica's poetry also appears in Take Two: Another Anthology of English Writing from the Costalegre.